1 Overlooked Gem Song From Every Beatles Album

13. There’s A Place - Please Please Me

Most of debut album Please Please Me was recorded in a single day. The songs were all numbers the band were used to playing live and the performances were tight but had an energy and vigour. There’s A Place shares those qualities but delivers an unexpected emotional depth and sophistication.

Received wisdom has it that The Beatles started out writing nothing but love songs. I love you, you love me, that sort of thing. She Loves You was considered quite the lyrical departure just for putting things in the third person. While it’s mostly true with the band’s words becoming increasingly sophisticated along with their music, There’s A Place is an early exception.

Brian Wilson would find praise in the '70s for moving on from hits about cars, girls and surfing to pen introspective numbers like In My Room. John Lennon was already writing about retreating into his own mind to escape the gloom in 1962.

Of course, John Lennon would go on to write increasingly personal, revealing songs like Help!, Julia and Mother. This song foreshadowed all of them.